All 9 Uses of
narrative
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- The narrative, it may be, is woven of so humble a texture as to require this advantage, and, at the same time, to render it the more difficult of attainment.†
Chpt Pref.narrative = story
- The reader may perhaps choose to assign an actual locality to the imaginary events of this narrative.†
Chpt Pref. *
- Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.†
Chpt 1
- And now—in a very humble way, as will be seen—we proceed to open our narrative.†
Chpt 1
- Whether the Judge in any degree resembled him, the further progress of our narrative may show.†
Chpt 8
- Within a few days after the appearance of this remarkable inmate, the routine of life had established itself with a good deal of uniformity in the old house of our narrative.†
Chpt 9
- The wild, chimney-corner legend (which, without copying all its extravagances, my narrative essentially follows) here gives an account of some very strange behavior on the part of Colonel Pyncheon's portrait.†
Chpt 13
- On the doorstep, she met the little urchin whose marvellous feats of gastronomy have been recorded in the earlier pages of our narrative.†
Chpt 14
- According to this version of the story, Judge Pyncheon, exemplary as we have portrayed him in our narrative, was, in his youth, an apparently irreclaimable scapegrace.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
a story; or related to a story